The Boys is an American comic book series written by Garth Ennis and co-created, designed, and illustrated by Darick Robertson. The series concluded in November 2012 with the release of the 72nd and final issue. The book was adapted by Amazon Studios into a television series that premiered on July 26, 2019.
About The Boys (comics) in brief
The Boys is an American comic book series written by Garth Ennis and co-created, designed, and illustrated by Darick Robertson. It was originally published by Wildstorm before moving to Dynamite Entertainment. The series concluded in November 2012 with the release of the 72nd and final issue. The book was adapted by Amazon Studios into a television series that premiered on July 26, 2019. The Boys is set between 2006–2008 in a world where superheroes exist. Most of the superheroes in the series’ universe are corrupted by their celebrity status and often engage in reckless behavior, compromising the safety of the world. The story follows a small clandestine CIA squad, informally known as ‘The Boys’, who are charged with monitoring the superhero community, often leading to gruesome confrontations and dreadful results. In February 2009 Dynamite announced a spin-off mini-series Herogasm, with art from John McCrea, who Ennis has worked with numerous times before, and Keith Burns, a friend of McCrea’s of whom he has said: \”Keith’s strengths are my weaknesses and vice versa. After that, life gets serious fast, and by the end you’ll have witnessed events that will change things in the Boys’ world for good. The idea for the story does not involve the team and focuses on the superheroes, but will affect the main series. Our heroes’ minor role in the story gradually alters its dynamic, until something happens in #4 that sends things off on a completely unexpected tangent.
After the end of #4, things get serious fast. We’ll start to pick up on the effects of that with #31 of the regular title. After The Boys was completed, Ennis told Comic Book Resources that the comic had benefitted from Wildstorm cancelling it, as Dynamite gave him far more freedom than DC ever would have: “We’d have died on the vine. The book would have been chipped and chipped away at until writing it was pure frustration” The series is The Boys version of the big ‘event’ storylines but, according to Ennis, “We’re not picking on ‘Crisis’ or ‘Secret Wars’ or “Countdown” or whatever in particular” “The Boys’ first meeting in New York City is to intimidate a teen group called Teenage Kix” The Boys conduct surveillance on the group using blackmail to gather dirt on its members, using the dirt to blackmail them into compliance with the group’s demands. At the first meeting, Billy Butcher learns of a presidential directive charging the CIA with monitoring all superheroes. He uses the directive to get the backing of a police team designed to reform the superheroes. In the fifth issue, Butcher brings Mother’s Milk, the Frenchman, the Female, and the Female of the Species together to return to the grandkids as his grandkids. The boys’ fifth member, Mallory, refuses to return as grandkids were murdered due to his involvement with the Requage group.
You want to know more about The Boys (comics)?
This page is based on the article The Boys (comics) published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 17, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
